"If they can get control of children ... they can change the whole culture in one generation."

This importance of this was echoed by historians Will and Ariel Durant in The Lessons of History, 1968:

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"Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew ;

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if the transmission should be interrupted ... civilization would die, and we should be savages again."

The Apostle Paul wrote to Timothy (2 Timothy 1:5):

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"I have been reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, now lives in you also."

On February 3, 1983, at the annual National Prayer Breakfast, President Ronald Reagan stated:

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"I have a very special old Bible.

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And alongside a verse in the Second Book of Chronicles there are some words, handwritten, very faded by now.

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﻿And believe me, the person who wrote these words was an authority. Her name was Nelle Wilson Reagan. She was my mother."

Reagan stated:

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"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream.

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It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."

Abraham Lincoln stated:

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"“I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.”